A Question on Functional Programming Language

skeeterses

I know that not too many people are going to see this but I think this
is probably the place to post the message.

I'm writing a program in Haskell to test out some text formatting
functions and I want the text to be in a text file as opposed to being
hardcoded within the program.
So how do I convert an IO String to a String.

The language will not treat IO String and String the same way.
I did figure out how to test the text functions on an IO String,
which would look like
string1 = do line <- readFile "sample.txt"
putStrLn (textprocedure... line)

I just think it would be easier to convert the IO String to a String
and then simply call
textprocedure string1.

goliath

: I know that not too many people are going to see this but I think this
: is probably the place to post the message.
:
: I'm writing a program in Haskell to test out some text formatting
: functions and I want the text to be in a text file as opposed to being
: hardcoded within the program.
: So how do I convert an IO String to a String.
:
: The language will not treat IO String and String the same way.
: I did figure out how to test the text functions on an IO String,
: which would look like
: string1 = do line <- readFile "sample.txt"
: putStrLn (textprocedure... line)
:
: I just think it would be easier to convert the IO String to a String
: and then simply call
: textprocedure string1.
:
:
:
I don't know how to help you, but maybe you can post the message on the messageboard "Programming for AI"
Programming Languages -> Other languages -> Programming for AI
Hopefully someone will read it and be able to help you there...